CrashingTheGoalie

by desert dawg

So Alexander Semin utters the blasphemous words and no one reacts? No pile of dry brush and pints of lighter fluid applied as he’s strapped to the burning post.. No fingernails pulled for his heresy? They didn’t even use Dick Cheney’s modern method for exposing witches by waterboarding them? Yep, Semin skated [...]

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Just when Evgeni, Sidney, and Miroslav thought it was safe to go into the water…

they encountered the trapping Orcas and their Head Whale, Roberto….

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by desertdawg
I remember when they announced that the North Stars were moving to Dallas and it seemed that, outside of about 12,000 local fans, no one seemed to care. The answer to every query was, well, Minnesota has College Hockey and the best high school hockey tournament in the world. Who needs professionals?
Minneapolis itself is [...]

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by desertdawg
Contrary to popular belief, mark messier was never a Vancouver Canuck. You have to backcheck at least three times before you can call yourself a Canuck (or have your name printed in upper case)
The truth is messier really only played his heart out for two teams: The Edmonton Oilers and The New York [...]

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by Ron Spence
NHL salaries have changed since the 1920s, and so have the contracts.
Below are NHL contracts from 1926, 1962, and 2006.
The first contract was between Howie Morenz and the Montreal Canadiens:

The second contract was signed by Harry Howell when he was playing for the New York Rangers.

The third contract was between the Pittsburgh Penguins [...]

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by desertdawg
In a game that had all the excitement of Britney Spears’ performance at the MTV awards, the Canucks were lulled to sleep by the straight ahead, nothing fancy, stay in your lanes game of the New York Islanders.
These are the toughest games to win and without making excuses for the boys from the west [...]

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The Islanders of today remind me of the Canucks of yesterday – bringing up prospects too soon to see if they will sink or swim.
Greg Logan of  Newsday writes:
“[Because the Islanders have traded away so much of their talent in the past] GM Garth Snow and coach Scott Gordon are dedicated to the development of [...]

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by desertdawg
My hate affair with the Toronto Maple Leafs started during the Harold Ballard years. Before that old SOB came along, the Leafs were Canada’s team. The legends of the 1967 Stanley Cup Champions had every 2nd kid west of the Ottawa-Hull border wearing the blue and white jersey.
And even though Ballard’s Maple Leafs [...]

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The Tampa Tribune’s Erik Erlendsson is one of the NHL’s best writers, and he offers his take on the Melrose firing:
“I apologize in advance of posting this as I write through blurry eyes (literally because my contacts are drying) and a clouded mind as I try to briefly (it’s past my bedtime) sum up the [...]

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If the playoffs started tomorrow, the 8th place Leafs would be playing the 1st place Rangers.
Some might have forecast that Markus’ new team would be in first place, but no one predicted that Toronto would be part of the post season.
Why have the Leafs done so well – to date?
Maple Leafs.commentator Mike Ulmer gives Cliff [...]

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